Proposte
In 1993, a large number of the most qualified Italian furnishing textiles industrialists promoted the PROPOSTE fair. What was needed was a specialised and selective fair, which, starting from the consolidated MADE IN ITALY, would highlight the quality and professionalism of MADE IN EUROPE.
SPECIALIZED because the exhibitors are exclusively direct producers of furnishing and curtain fabrics, trimmings and wallcoverings. SELECTIVE because these exhibitors share at least three characteristics: the qualification of their companies and products, their professional fairness, their commitment to research and experimentation in the field of aesthetics and in that of technologies.
Proposte is an exhibition with free admission reserved to operators belonging to the following business sectors: textile editors, upholstered furniture manufacturers, wholesalers, converters, major retail chains, contract industry professionals, architecture and interior design studios.
The exhibiting location is Villa Erba in Cernobbio (Como – Italy).
PROPOSTE 1993 | 44 exhibitors, 38 of which Italian and 6 from other European countries, and 2500 visitors. In 1997 PROPOSTE obtained the Italian government’s acknowledgement as international fair.
PROPOSTE 2024 | 79 exhibitors, of whom 31 are Italian and 48 from abroad.
WITH THE SUPPORT:
The organization
PROPOSTE SRL
Via Alberto Riva Villasanta, 3 – 20145 Milano (IT)
Phone: 02 6434054
info@propostefair.it
VAT: 13313820154
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Alessandro Tessuto, president
Matteo Cavelli, vice-president
Marco Parravicini, director
Piercarlo Viganò, director
Diego Vercellino, director
THE FAIR
Massimo Mosiello, General Manager
Paola Motta, Coordinator operative secretariat


The name and trade mark
The name “proposte” suggests the textile manufacturers’ desire to always offer their clients new proposals.
The logotype is set in Bodoni types from the Manual of Giambattista Bodoni, a printer and publisher who lived from 1740 and 1813, and it underlines the fact that this is an Italian initiative.
Regarding the “P” logo, Massimo Abbondi, designer of the Proposte ’93 image, said “The slanting lines of the logo represent the textile product coming out of an imaginary textile machine, depicted as a semicircle, part of the geometrically perfect shape of the circle, a good symbol for a modern, professional manufacturing industry. The line of the loop on the P, pictorially represented, symbolises the creative imagination needed to find new products; and finally, the use of colour underlines the intention to create products for interior decoration”.